Posted on 09/25/2014 4:09:20 AM PDT by drpix
If you are sending a text, watching the TV or listening to the radio, you may want to stop and give this your full attention.
Multi-tasking shrinks the brain, research suggests.
A study found that men and women who frequently used several types of technology at the same time had less grey matter in a key part of the brain....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Ahd reserch "suggests" that man is warming the planet. Well, it did, but we learned more since then...
Kind of sounds and smells like crap...
All research ever does is suggest. We then pick and choose the “truth” based on our own bias.
I’ve said that the word multitasking was invented to justify the fact that a lot of women are unable to concentrate on the matter at hand.
It is a mostly female concept- the idea that doing 5 things with little attention is better than doing one thing well. Perhaps this attitude works in managing a household, but not so well in a high-pressure job.
I don’t talk on my cell phone while driving, I obeyed that law before it was even a law. For some reason, it’s difficult to do both at the same time. On the other hand, I don’t advocate for a law against it because everyone is not like me. I suppose that’s why I’m not a democrat.
feh...
Nonsense. I can drink text and browse facebook while driving and drinking an iced mochacionafrappacino. Did you hear what Miley did this time?
Explanation for the Last Two Election Cycles ping....
Don’t much care what the research “suggests” but multi-taskers are also very annoying. They don’t pay attention, miss a lot of information, ask repetitive questions to what has already been said, done or written.
Mostly they do a half-assed job of most things they are doing. Driving and the cell phone come to mind. Driving over centerline is common.
No man can serve two masters seems to apply here.
I think the researchers are confusing multi-tasking with inability to concentrate..
I’ve noticed that most of my nephews have trouble solving problems, not because they aren’t smart enough, but because they can’t concentrate long enough to learn the facts and then sit down and work through the problem.
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